Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He claims , therefore , that one of this century 's most important innovations in business organization is explained by his approach . |
| 32 | Having had the pleasure of meeting Willy De Roos several years ago he made a great impression on me and although little is publicised about his achievements , it is a shame that they are not better known . |
| 33 | The old man is hobbling across his allotment , shouting questions . |
| 34 | As feminist psychology becomes more popular , and extends its spheres of investigation , it is crystallizing from its mixed medical , anthropological , sociological , literary , and feminist antecedents , into a more specifically psychological form . |
| 35 | Its mellow character is compounded of its age , its comfortable lack of pretension and the various roles it has to play as farm , design studio and home . ’ |
| 36 | Fear of unemployment is probably doing more than anything to hold back consumers from increasing their spending , and that is compounded by their desire to pay down debt after getting their fingers burned in the late 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s . |
| 37 | In such a situation the head office 's necessary lack of insight into the dynamics of the individual businesses is compounded by its over-reliance on the major formally rational means of control over local management and assessment of business prospects — that is , dependence upon financial calculations and accounting techniques premised on the divisional form . |
| 38 | And the weakness of this claim is compounded by his examples , which are far more individualist than the claim they are intended to illustrate . |
| 39 | ‘ The hand of the corpse is hacked off ; the name of the person whom the witch or warlock wishes to hurt is placed between its fingers and then it 's buried at the foot of a gibbet on the first stroke of midnight . ’ |
| 40 | At another party , in the South of France , a reefer is placed between his lips by a girl whose trousers fall down . |
| 41 | Your wrists are tied to your ankles , a metal bar is passed under your knees , you are lifted up , hanging from this bar , a wet floor cloth is placed over your face so that you can not breathe , and your head and the soles of your feet and beaten with a leather belt . |
| 42 | This dries out downwards , just as a wet towel dries out if it is placed with its top in a current of warm air . |
| 43 | Hectographic carbon paper is placed with its coated surface upwards and the glossy surface of the special paper is placed down on to it . |
| 44 | A robin will attack a bundle of red feathers , a socialist politician will verbally attack a right-wing conservative , a spider will attempt to tie up a vibrating tuning fork if the tip is placed upon its web . |
| 45 | ‘ I say that because the true liberation of women will never come about until proper respect and value is placed upon their role as nurturers . ’ |
| 46 | It is best if lead training is started quite young so that , as an older puppy , it will freely accept a check chain when it is placed around its neck . |
| 47 | We are trying to suggest here that academic enterprise may be useful as long as it is placed in its proper social context . |
| 48 | When the autoset cam driver is placed in its holder at the left end of the ribber bed , the autoset lever will be reversed every time the carriages go into the colour changer . |
| 49 | When Roland Barthes writes of Garbo 's face , a paradox is placed in its image , since the very essence of Garbo 's face ( that this face is Garbo 's and no other ) is posed in its absolute mask-like quality , by the face in its impersonality , in its very indifference . |
| 50 | His general point is that the debt burden debate is resolved when each of its aspects is placed in its appropriate ‘ cost ’ category . |
| 51 | When food is placed in your mouth , you can not choose not to salivate . |
| 52 | It is placed in your child 's seat and if he moves off it , the pressure-sensitive cushion sounds the alarm . |
| 53 | As part of the installation routine , a device command is placed in your CONFIG.SYS , and other system configuration files are altered — if , for instance , you are running Windows 3.1 , then it 's possible that the virtual memory utility contained therein uses 32 bit disk access to write to and read from your permanent swap file . |
| 54 | The mayor is placed in his stall by the dean with these words , as set out in the order of service : |
| 55 | A strategy 's niceness is recognized by its behaviour , not by its motives ( for it has none ) nor by the personality of its author ( who has faded into the background by the time the program is running in the computer ) . |
| 56 | What matters is not its conformity to rules , but the fact that it communicates and is recognized by its receivers as coherent . |
| 57 | Everyone lines up in ranks , all facing the instructor , who is the highest authority in the dojo and is recognized by his black belt . |
| 58 | What is emphasized in their case is something very different : the support which their political constitution and generally speaking their customs and habits gave them in their drive towards world-rule . |
| 59 | To get an idea of some of the many different features that can be produced , consider what happens to a single , large flow as it is traced from its source to its tip . |
| 60 | Briefly , the development of his thought is traced from his earliest days at the LSE under the influence of Hayek and Robbins , through his conversion to Keynesianism , and his extension of Keynesian analysis and modes of thinking to growing capitalist economies . |